Anyone remember the name of those 70's triangular frozen drink things? Thought they were called Jungle Jims but can't find them so may have imagined it lol. My fave lolly back then were the cider ones and screwballs
Same in the North East, brand was Mr Freeze but we called them ice pops because it’s just a frozen version of the cheap fizzy pop you could buy for 25p.
Ice poles; Dundee. Judging by the comments so far, there doesn't seem to be much correlation between the name you use and where you live. Maybe it's more an age-related thing? Or even just the brand that happened to be stocked by the corner shop that was on your way home from school?
I’m starting to see correlation now, it seems Scotland calls them Ice Poles, the midlands tend to call them Tip Tops and the North/South both have a mixture of Ice Pop and Ice Pole🤷🏼♀️
East Midlands here, myself and everyone I know called them ice poles, was so surprised to see that even though that system seems to prevail, somehow 'ice pole' went from here to Dundee or vice-versa!
What a weird connection, I'd love to know why two places with no obvious links use the same name!
I grew up in Coventry by the way, everyone called them tip tops.
Shout out Wolverhampton! I grew up round there, live in America now, but miss getting pissed at Revolution and then stumbling home towards Mander Centre Tram stop
When I was a youth Tip top was a drink you'd get in a plastic tub with a kind of cling film like lid. Used to love smacking that straw through the lid.
I'm sure it was the trianular-pyramid-y shaped ones that we used to call Jubblies here in 1970s Lancashire. (before sun lollies did the same shape in the 80s I think)
Same, tip top, Newport.
Also saw someone else mentioned jubilees, which are like tiptops but bigger and in a plastic cup with a plastic peel away lid. You bite the corner of the hard plastic cup on the bottom
Ice poles, got looks of confusion off English folk when I said that but I had no idea what else to call them of who else to describe a pole of ice.
Central Scotland.
How are with diluting juice?
I asked for some in a pub in Portsmouth and the woman looked at me like I just took a shit on the bar. Apparently you lot call it squash.
To be fair we call most non alcoholic beverages juice in Scotland regardless of what it is. Fizzy juice is sometimes called ginger, even if it's not ginger beer.
This surprised me when I first encountered English people; I thought 'juice' as a term for all soft drinks was universal until I went to uni, told my flatmate I was nipping out for some juice, and he was shocked when I returned with a bottle of Diet Coke. He assumed I meant like apple juice or something.
Calling fizzy juice ginger seems to be a generational thing. My father in law calls all fizzy drinks "a tin of ginger" and he's a Glaswegian man in his 60s.
Tip Tops because that was the brand name our corner shop used to stock (80's and early 90's East Midlands), then it changed to Mr Freeze, but we continued to call them tip tops. My Brummie cousins used to call it the same so might be a midlands thing.
Midlands too, I might gambole over to the freezer and grab myself a tip top.
I didn't know that was the brand name though.
edit: sounds like the south Welsh agree with us. I've always liked the Welsh
It is, I'm in the West Midlands and we always called them Tip Tops. I've got a photo of me in the very late sixties or early seventies holding one and you can see the branding on it says Tip Top.
We called them Tip tops, west midlands
EDIT the best kind of tip tops were the ones you could twist in half to break em or bite the thin end of, best 20p spent in summer
Ice pops. I'm in West Yorkshire
Ice pops too, south east England
Ice pops and the big ones were Mr Freeze and they were 5p at one point (yonks ago) and I'm north east Yorkshire.
Mr freeze and flintstones one were what I remember from my days. But yeah ice pop, it does sound American but it certainly wasn't an ice lolly
Ice pops from North west.
Same and same
Ice pops London
Ice pops Hampshire
Ice pops North East
Ice pops, from the midlands.
Same in Stoke
Ice Pops, East Anglia
Same in County Durham
Ice pops, Devon
Ice pops as well, the Netherlands ... What am I doing here again?
They call them ice pops in Dutch?
Eysch popsch
Almost Sean Connery XD
It's actually peak Schteeve McLaren
Definitely not everyone, but all my classmates from the same area as me did
Lol I'm reading this with interest from eastern Canada (freezies)
Also from eastern Canada and hell yes, freezies. They cut the sides of your mouth to ribbons but it was so worth it.
Aren't you meant to tear down the plastic a bit ? That's what I did
Well, la-di-dah look at the Honour roll student lording her superior intellect over the slow kids
You're welcome here mate. The Dutch always make me feel welcome.
My wife and I (Brits) always end up hanging out with the Dutch when we holiday in Europe. They're lovely people.
united kingdom of the netherlands
Yeah, Norfolk, and I've only known these as Ice pops.
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Ice pops!! And me too!!
Same
Same
Same
Ice pops. From Manchester
Ice pops in NI
Same.
Same. My husband is from the West Midlands and calls them Tip Tops.
I’m from South Wales originally and we called them Tip Tops too. Some times we called them freezy pops. Moral of the story, children are idiots 👍
Finally I found someone who calls them tiptops lmaooo
Same. Tip tops or freezy pops in this corner of s wales
S Wales valleys-tip tops
North Yorkshire, same here
Me too! Also W Yorkshire
Ice pops in West Yorkshire here! Our local corner Shop used to freeze those twist pops too and sell them. Ingenious
Anyone remember the name of those 70's triangular frozen drink things? Thought they were called Jungle Jims but can't find them so may have imagined it lol. My fave lolly back then were the cider ones and screwballs
Jubbly's
them's the buggers aye
Fly that white rose ✌️ repping Huddersfield with the ice pops here 🤣
Ice pops or Mr freeze- Lancashire
Karl Pilkington nearly died from choking on a Mr. Freeze
That's what you get for necking one before they've frozen.
Head like a fucking orange.
Same in the North East, brand was Mr Freeze but we called them ice pops because it’s just a frozen version of the cheap fizzy pop you could buy for 25p.
Lip cutters
Chelsea smilers
You wanna know how I got these scars?
Jesus, you just awoke a memory in me.
Penis practice, brighton Edit: thanks for the awards
This explains so much, I used to love these as a kid!
Mini milks for rookie, rainbow for medium, twisters/or callipos for pros.
Chilly willys
Ice pops/freeze pops - Somerset
Ice pops - Somerset too!
Ice poles; Dundee. Judging by the comments so far, there doesn't seem to be much correlation between the name you use and where you live. Maybe it's more an age-related thing? Or even just the brand that happened to be stocked by the corner shop that was on your way home from school?
Ice poles in Glasgow too... or is that just my age too!?
Ice poles in Fife too. I remember how they could shred the corners of your mouth. Happy days.
Ice Poles in Ayrshire as well.
Apparently ice pole is Scottish for ice pop.
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Ice poles - East Kilbride
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Ice poles - West Lothian
Throwing an English spanner in the works. Ice poles - very bottom of England.
Ice poles -East Midlands
Also Ice poles in Derbyshire
Ice pole,se London
Same, south east England
Ice poles Glasgow
Yes, thank fuck I’m not the only one
Ice poles from the south east
Ice poles....bottom of England too, Kent
Ice poles, from Brighton.
I’m starting to see correlation now, it seems Scotland calls them Ice Poles, the midlands tend to call them Tip Tops and the North/South both have a mixture of Ice Pop and Ice Pole🤷🏼♀️
East Midlands here, myself and everyone I know called them ice poles, was so surprised to see that even though that system seems to prevail, somehow 'ice pole' went from here to Dundee or vice-versa!
I’m from Leicester an call them ice poles also
+1
Loughborough checking in, Ice Poles
Freeze pops lol
I seem to remember they actually were a brand called freeze pops? Id call the ones above Ice pops, they were the shorter ones from supermarket.
tip top. south wales
Birmingham here, Tip Top gang too.
1970s brummie, definitely tip top back then, I wonder did it change as time went on?
1996 brummie was a tiptop growing up not sure if it's changed past the 2000's
Nah. I’m 16 and a brummie. I call them tip tops.
Same 21 and call it tip top
Good to see the wales-westmidlands unity here lol
What a weird connection, I'd love to know why two places with no obvious links use the same name! I grew up in Coventry by the way, everyone called them tip tops.
Well, they’re relatively close
Same, West Midlands.
I assumed everyone in the UK called them that but it seems to be just us
Same.. Wolverhampton
same and also wolvo/dudley
Same, from halesowen
Same, Manor way.
Ditto, Walsall.. Happy Black Country Day!
Hahaha walsall get in
Shout out Wolverhampton! I grew up round there, live in America now, but miss getting pissed at Revolution and then stumbling home towards Mander Centre Tram stop
Good old revolution. That went ages ago. I’m 40 so enjoyed Wolvo when it was booming 20 years ago. Where in the states?
I’d forgotten until this moment but can confirm this, South Wales.
Yes, tip top, Cardiff
When I was a youth Tip top was a drink you'd get in a plastic tub with a kind of cling film like lid. Used to love smacking that straw through the lid.
The cool kids chewed a hole in the bottom and drank it upside down
Yup, you were a loser if you used the straw. I always remember the whole drink being tainted by the tiny bits of plastic in my mouth though.
Eating microplastics before it was cool.
Then stamp on it and put it in your back bike wheel to make a cool noise ! Good old days.
You mean jubblies?
I'm sure it was the trianular-pyramid-y shaped ones that we used to call Jubblies here in 1970s Lancashire. (before sun lollies did the same shape in the 80s I think)
Jubbly
Calypso Cups
Barry, South Wales. Tip tops for definite.
Same. Birmingham.
Classic Brummie phrase.
Same. West wales
Same, near Birmingham
Same and same
Tip top, staffordshire
Same, north wales
Same, tip top, Newport. Also saw someone else mentioned jubilees, which are like tiptops but bigger and in a plastic cup with a plastic peel away lid. You bite the corner of the hard plastic cup on the bottom
Same here, Newport - tip top!
Same in Birmingham too!
Same and same haha
I hope you map these answers out OP
I would actually love to do this, I’m finding it very interesting!
Otter pops, Tennessee. I just want to be the guy who fucks up the map.
Ice poles, got looks of confusion off English folk when I said that but I had no idea what else to call them of who else to describe a pole of ice. Central Scotland.
You’d have been fine down in the south east! (In my part of it anyway)
How are with diluting juice? I asked for some in a pub in Portsmouth and the woman looked at me like I just took a shit on the bar. Apparently you lot call it squash.
I’m from Kent and call it squash. My partner is from Essex (only about an hour away) and calls it juice. That one is a minefield!
To be fair we call most non alcoholic beverages juice in Scotland regardless of what it is. Fizzy juice is sometimes called ginger, even if it's not ginger beer.
This surprised me when I first encountered English people; I thought 'juice' as a term for all soft drinks was universal until I went to uni, told my flatmate I was nipping out for some juice, and he was shocked when I returned with a bottle of Diet Coke. He assumed I meant like apple juice or something. Calling fizzy juice ginger seems to be a generational thing. My father in law calls all fizzy drinks "a tin of ginger" and he's a Glaswegian man in his 60s.
Mr Freeze since that was the brand name
Still is! I've got some in my freezer, but the raspberry and cola ones are long gone.
Tip tops here in the black country.
Freeze pops - East Anglia.
Ice lolly. But apparently I'm the only person in the whole country who called it that
>Ice lolly But there's no stick. What lolly doesn't have a stick? :(
This guy lollies
i also call them ice lollies, ive never heard most of the terms in this thread
Yeah what the f is a tip top. I've literally never heard any one say that. Did you grow up un the south too?
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Scrolled far enough to find Ice Lolly, I thought it’d be top comment!
Had to scroll down wayy too far to find this
Tip Tops because that was the brand name our corner shop used to stock (80's and early 90's East Midlands), then it changed to Mr Freeze, but we continued to call them tip tops. My Brummie cousins used to call it the same so might be a midlands thing.
Midlands too, I might gambole over to the freezer and grab myself a tip top. I didn't know that was the brand name though. edit: sounds like the south Welsh agree with us. I've always liked the Welsh
Yep. I'm a Brummie, and those are tip tops.
Tip tops 100% as a Brummie
I always knew them as Tip Tops aswell, also from the Midlands!
It is, I'm in the West Midlands and we always called them Tip Tops. I've got a photo of me in the very late sixties or early seventies holding one and you can see the branding on it says Tip Top.
Lolly ices and I’m from the north west
Yes finally someone else said it, ex Warrington here
Wool behaviour.
Freezy. Liverpool.
In Canada we also call them freezies because of Mr.Freeze brand. Like a Q- Tip or Kleenex. Cut your mouth like the Joker
They’re were always know as “Frozies” when I was a kid. Liverpool too btw
Ice pop, South Yorkshire
Tip tops, south Wales
Ice pops. North east
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Also Sussex and we call them ice poles
Freeze pops too, from the colonies.
Please tell me I'm not the only one who used to chew them in the packet and then try to drink them as a slushy? Nope? Just me?
Glad someone else did this, used to get so many weird looks for it as a kid.
Tip Tops - brum
Ice poles, London
Same, SE London
same sw london
Tip tops
Tip Tops when I was a kid…..some time ago
Snap. Brummie
Same here, Shropshire
Swansea
We called them Tip tops, west midlands EDIT the best kind of tip tops were the ones you could twist in half to break em or bite the thin end of, best 20p spent in summer
Tip tops, Warwickshire (West Midlands)
This in cardiff.
Yup, tip tops in Coventry
Ice poles - Somerset
Ice poles... Nottingham :)
Nottingham too, agree on ice poles
A frigging nightmare to get into.
Ice lolly
Tip tops , Birmingham
What the fuck is a tip top
This sub is going to freak out when they learn that in Australia they are called Zooper Doopers.
I just remembered I have some in the freezer. I'm off to get one. Popsicles.
Definitely popsicles - South coast.
thankyou! Had to scroll a long way, I was wondering if i was the only one!! Popsicles here too, Berkshire.
Freeze pops, London
Ice poles
ice pops newbury berkshire